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Outgoing caller ID name

Only recently I found out that my Virgin Mobile phone's outgoing caller ID shows my name with the number. Prior, it showed unknown name or wireless caller. Was this part of the system update? I had it changed back to Wireless Caller but I was curious if anyone else noticed the same. The only reason I found out was because I called my T-Mobile phone from my VM phone, and my T-Mo phone has "name ID" so it showed my name too.

I have my T-Mobile phone set to wireless caller as well, but more so I wanted my VM number to not have my name because I use it to return CL calls.

you can change the account name to whatever name you want at virgin mobile dot com.if you want caller id to say wireless caller, change the first name to wireless and the last name to caller.i change it all the time to funny names so my friends get a laugh.funny names from The Simpsons

you can change the account name to whatever name you want at virgin mobile dot com.if you want caller id to say wireless caller, change the first name to wireless and the last name to caller.i change it all the time to funny names so my friends get a laugh.funny names from The Simpsons

Mine still shows as "Cell Phone MN." I wonder if this is a difference between pre- and post-system update accounts? Or if only some phone service providers receive caller ID information from Virgin Mobile?